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Robert Morton Nance (1873-1959) Born in Cardiff
Cardiff

Cardiff is the Capital , largest city and most populous Unitary authority#Wales in Wales. The city is Wales' chief commercial centre, the base for many national cultural and sport institutions, the Welsh national media, and the seat of Welsh Assembly Government ....
 of Cornish parents. Nance moved to Cornwall
Cornwall

Cornwall , constitutional Duchy and palatine, is a metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties of England of England, United Kingdom, located at the tip of the south-western peninsula of Great Britain....
 in 1906 where he lived at the village of Nancledra
Nancledra

Nancledra is a village in Cornwall, UK. This village is about 4 miles from the towns of St Ives, Cornwall and Penzance. Nancledra is a very small village with a population of around 150....
 near St Ives
St Ives, Cornwall

St Ives is a seaside resort, civil parish and port in the Penwith district of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The town lies north of Penzance and west of Camborne....
.

A leading authority on the Cornish language
Cornish language

The Cornish language is one of the Brythonic group of Celtic languages. The language continued to function as a community language in parts of Cornwall until the late 18th century, and there have been attempts to revive the language since the early 20th century....
, and joint founder the Old Cornwall Society
Federation of Old Cornwall Societies

The Federation of Old Cornwall Societies was formed in 1924, with the objective of collecting and maintaining "all those ancient things that make the spirit of Cornwall ? its traditions, its old words and ways, and what remains to it of Cornish language and nationality"....
.

He wrote many books and pamphlets on the Cornish language
Cornish language

The Cornish language is one of the Brythonic group of Celtic languages. The language continued to function as a community language in parts of Cornwall until the late 18th century, and there have been attempts to revive the language since the early 20th century....
, including a Cornish dictionary, which is a standard work, and edited magazines and pamphlets about Cornwall
Cornwall

Cornwall , constitutional Duchy and palatine, is a metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties of England of England, United Kingdom, located at the tip of the south-western peninsula of Great Britain....
, including the journal of the Federation of Old Cornwall Societies
Federation of Old Cornwall Societies

The Federation of Old Cornwall Societies was formed in 1924, with the objective of collecting and maintaining "all those ancient things that make the spirit of Cornwall ? its traditions, its old words and ways, and what remains to it of Cornish language and nationality"....
. Nance was also a nautical archaeologist of distinction and was an originator of the Society for Nautical Research
Society for Nautical Research

The Society for Nautical Research was founded in 1910 to promote the academic field of maritime history in the United Kingdom.The aims of the society are to:...
.






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Robert Morton Nance (1873-1959) Born in Cardiff
Cardiff

Cardiff is the Capital , largest city and most populous Unitary authority#Wales in Wales. The city is Wales' chief commercial centre, the base for many national cultural and sport institutions, the Welsh national media, and the seat of Welsh Assembly Government ....
 of Cornish parents. Nance moved to Cornwall
Cornwall

Cornwall , constitutional Duchy and palatine, is a metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties of England of England, United Kingdom, located at the tip of the south-western peninsula of Great Britain....
 in 1906 where he lived at the village of Nancledra
Nancledra

Nancledra is a village in Cornwall, UK. This village is about 4 miles from the towns of St Ives, Cornwall and Penzance. Nancledra is a very small village with a population of around 150....
 near St Ives
St Ives, Cornwall

St Ives is a seaside resort, civil parish and port in the Penwith district of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The town lies north of Penzance and west of Camborne....
.

A leading authority on the Cornish language
Cornish language

The Cornish language is one of the Brythonic group of Celtic languages. The language continued to function as a community language in parts of Cornwall until the late 18th century, and there have been attempts to revive the language since the early 20th century....
, and joint founder the Old Cornwall Society
Federation of Old Cornwall Societies

The Federation of Old Cornwall Societies was formed in 1924, with the objective of collecting and maintaining "all those ancient things that make the spirit of Cornwall ? its traditions, its old words and ways, and what remains to it of Cornish language and nationality"....
.

He wrote many books and pamphlets on the Cornish language
Cornish language

The Cornish language is one of the Brythonic group of Celtic languages. The language continued to function as a community language in parts of Cornwall until the late 18th century, and there have been attempts to revive the language since the early 20th century....
, including a Cornish dictionary, which is a standard work, and edited magazines and pamphlets about Cornwall
Cornwall

Cornwall , constitutional Duchy and palatine, is a metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties of England of England, United Kingdom, located at the tip of the south-western peninsula of Great Britain....
, including the journal of the Federation of Old Cornwall Societies
Federation of Old Cornwall Societies

The Federation of Old Cornwall Societies was formed in 1924, with the objective of collecting and maintaining "all those ancient things that make the spirit of Cornwall ? its traditions, its old words and ways, and what remains to it of Cornish language and nationality"....
. Nance was also a nautical archaeologist of distinction and was an originator of the Society for Nautical Research
Society for Nautical Research

The Society for Nautical Research was founded in 1910 to promote the academic field of maritime history in the United Kingdom.The aims of the society are to:...
. His insight and learning were displayed in his book 'Sailing Ship Models' which appeared in 1924. He studied art in Britain and France
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
 and was both painter and skilled craftsman.

Chronology of his life


1906 Robert Morton Nance (Mordon) moves from Wales
Wales

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 and settles at Nancledra
Nancledra

Nancledra is a village in Cornwall, UK. This village is about 4 miles from the towns of St Ives, Cornwall and Penzance. Nancledra is a very small village with a population of around 150....
.

1911 Jointly founded the Society for Nautical Research
Society for Nautical Research

The Society for Nautical Research was founded in 1910 to promote the academic field of maritime history in the United Kingdom.The aims of the society are to:...
.

1920 Together with Henry Jenner
Henry Jenner

File:Henjenner.jpgHenry Jenner Society of Antiquaries of London was a Celtic languages scholar, Cornwall cultural activist, and the chief originator of the Cornish language revival....
, founded the first Old Cornwall Society at St Ives
St Ives, Cornwall

St Ives is a seaside resort, civil parish and port in the Penwith district of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The town lies north of Penzance and west of Camborne....


1924 Federation of Old Cornwall Societies
Federation of Old Cornwall Societies

The Federation of Old Cornwall Societies was formed in 1924, with the objective of collecting and maintaining "all those ancient things that make the spirit of Cornwall ? its traditions, its old words and ways, and what remains to it of Cornish language and nationality"....
 established.

1925 Federation establishes periodical 'Old Cornwall'.

1928 Jointly founded the Gorseth Kernow
Gorseth Kernow

Gorseth Kernow is a non-political Cornwall organisation, which exists to maintain the national Celtic spirit of the county of Cornwall in the United Kingdom....
 which was inaugurated at Boscawen-Un
Boscawen-Un

Boscawen-Un is a Bronze age stone circle close to St Buryan in Cornwall, UK.It consists of 19 upright stones in an ellipse with diameters 24.9m and 21.9m, with another, leaning, stone just south of the centre....
, where he took the bardic name
Bardic name

A bardic name is a pseudonym, used in Wales, Cornwall and Brittany, by poets and other artists, especially those involved in the eisteddfod movement....
 Mordon ('Sea Wave
Ocean surface wave

In fluid dynamics wind waves, or more precisely wind generated waves, are surface waves that occur on the free surface of oceans, seas, lakes, rivers and canals ? or even on small puddles and ponds....
').

1929 Robert Morton Nance published 'Cornish for All' in 'Unified' Middle Cornish spelling system.

1951 - 1955 President of the Royal Institution of Cornwall
Royal Institution of Cornwall

The Royal Institution of Cornwall was founded in Truro, Cornwall, United Kingdom, in 1818 as the Cornwall Literary and Philosophical Institution....
.

1959 Died aged 86

A list of works


The Cledry plays: Drolls of Old Cornwall for village acting and home reading. (1956) Publisher: Federation of Old Cornwall Societies. ISBN B0000CJH1W

Cornish for all: A guide to unified Cornish. (1961) Publisher: Federation of Old Cornwall Societies. ISBN B0000CKWG1

Cornish-English Dictionary. (1955) Publisher: Federation of Old Cornwall Societies. ISBN 0-902660-05-5

Classic Sailing-ship Models in Photographs. Reprinted in 2000 by Dover Publications
Dover Publications

Dover Publications is an American book publisher founded in 1941 by Hayward Cirker and his wife, Blanche. It publishes primarily reissues, books no longer published by their original publishers ? often, but not always, books in the public domain....
. ISBN 0-486-41249-0

See also

  • Agan Tavas
    Agan Tavas

    Agan Tavas is a society which exists to promote the Cornish language. It was formed in 1987 to promote the use of Cornish as a spoken language....
  • Richard Gendall
    Richard Gendall

    Richard Gendall is an expert on the Cornish language, born in 1924. He is the founder of "Modern Cornish"/Curnoack Nowedga, which split off during the 1980s....
  • Ken George
    Ken George

    Kenneth J. George, writing as Ken George, is an oceanographer and linguist noted as being the originator of Kernewek Kemmyn, an orthography for the Cornish language supporters claimed to be more faithful to Middle Cornish phonology than its precursor ....
  • Henry Jenner
    Henry Jenner

    File:Henjenner.jpgHenry Jenner Society of Antiquaries of London was a Celtic languages scholar, Cornwall cultural activist, and the chief originator of the Cornish language revival....
  • Dolly Pentreath
    Dolly Pentreath

    Dolly Pentreath is often considered to have been the last monoglot speaker of the Cornish language -- a legend which arose as a result of an account written by Daines Barrington of an interview he had conducted with Dolly....
  • Nicholas Williams
    Nicholas Williams

    Nicholas Jonathan Anselm Williams , writing as Nicholas Williams or sometimes N.J.A. Williams, is a leading expert on the Cornish language....


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